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From: wemagor@sym1.cca.rockwell.com_nospam (Wayne Magor)
Subject: Fixed point design error in Ada95
Date: 1998/09/09
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I don't follow this newsgroup regularly, so I'm sorry if this topic has
been discussed to death already.

I'd like to know if there is a plan to fix the design error in Ada95 that
prevents user overloading of the "*" and "/" operators for fixed-point
types (it results in an ambiguity on the call)?  The last I heard, the
GNAT compiler did not implement fixed-point correctly (as per the Ada95
spec) so this wasn't a problem for that compiler.  Is that true?  Can
other compilers do the same?

I had heard that this problem was known and was being discussed over a
year ago.  Was there a resolution, or is it being deferred to the next
version of Ada?

Is there a web site that contains Ada language issues such as this?
Also, what is the name of the Ada language maintenance committee?

Thanks,
Wayne.